Appendices - Geological Survey of Ireland

14. SOME STATISTICSa) Distribution of queries from the public in 2006 and 20072007 2006 % ChangeCustomer Centre 491 1192 - 59Groundwater 859 1600 - 46Minerals 150 120 +25Heritage 280 204 +37Seabed (Standard) 79 165 -52% }Seabed (IWDDS)* 259 0 }+100Quaternary 170 134 +26Geotechnical 115 138 -17Information92 98 - 6ManagementBedrock 78 125 -38Technical 20 18 +11Total 2873 3794 -24* Website queries requiring substantive response (over 1 hour work).b) GSI website activity: Visitors/User Sessions2007 2006 % Changegsi.ie 509,738 401,159 +25Web_Mapping 46,223 40,727 +13gsiseabed.ie 32,046 30,838 + 4Spatial Pages *923 - -Totals 588,930 472,724 +25*Launched during 2007.Note that in 2007 there were periods when structural changes were made to the website duringwhich figures were not recorded. Accordingly these figures include estimates for those periods.